Key Things to Know About Logistic Services

July 12, 2021

Logistics services play an important role not only in the trade and commercial industry but also impact our economic demands more than we realize. Following are important facts you need to know about logistic services in the Philippines that will convince you of this field’s importance in our daily living:

It is more than just transporting goods

Transportation services involve the movement of people, goods, livestock, and other commodities from one place to another via air, rail, road, sea, cable, space, or pipeline. Logistic services, on the other hand, have supplementary functions. It also involves goods transportation but requires additional responsibilities such as packaging, documentation, insurance, storage, importing and exporting regulations, risk mitigation, cataloging.

It has a variety of services

In general, the purpose of logistics services is to ensure smooth coordination and management as the goods are transported. It includes warehousing, cargo shipping, and courier shipping. Each category branches into more specific service types depending on the material and purpose of the transport. For instance, cold storage management involves transporting temperature-sensitive goods to a refrigerated warehouse. Strict compliance with the standard temperature and handling procedures are essential in this type of service. The same goes for pharmaceuticals and food transport. Logistics services also offer records management which involves systematic filing and destruction to free up office space. This service includes document management, document security, retrieval efficiency, and file destruction to comply with government regulations.

It requires efficient and effective management

With the standards that need to be complied with in terms of maintaining product quality and consumer demands, logistics services companies should be able to apply effective management decisions and skills. This industry is no easy feat. If standards are not met, the expenses incurred involve more than just the financial aspect. Say, a vaccine transport failed because the delivery personnel was not trained properly in terms of handling the vials, the appropriate temperature was not maintained during transport, the transport vehicle was not fit to carry the bottles safely – the monetary cost of the wasted vaccines is coupled with the lives that could have been saved had the vaccines were handled properly. Logistic services companies should have the extensive know-hows else goods will not reach their destination in the best condition.

Type of logistic services in the Philippines and across the world are essential to keeping our economic demands fulfilled. As you may also realize now, this industry is important as well in keeping necessary movement – both literally and figuratively – in our daily lives.